KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that the abolition of unemployment in the province is top priority of the government and for the resolution of this problem it had not only decided the promotion of industries rather has also prepared a new industrial policy.
He expressed these views while addressing the foundation laying ceremony of Abbottabad-Murree dual carriage way road in Abbottabad on Sunday.
The ceremony was also addressed by Special Assistant to CM on Information and Higher Education, Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, Provincial Minister for Food, Qalandar Khan Lodhi, MNA Dr Azhar Jadoon and MPA Sardar Mohammad Idrees.
The chief minister said that attractive incentives have been offered for durable industrial development under the new industrial policy, which is also fully welcomed by industrialists and investors.
He said that for the provision of sustainable and best quality facilities in industrial estates, their management has been handed over to a public sector management company.
The chief minister said that the shortage of 14,000 class-rooms and 40,000 teachers in public sector schools will be filled as steps are being taken at the cost of Rs 8 billion for the rehabilitation of the buildings of 402 higher secondary schools, establishment of laboratories and provision of 100 per cent other facilities. Similarly, he said that a package of Rs 3.3 billion has been approved for filling the shortage of doctors and provision of additional incentives to them while another hefty amount of Rs 5 billion will be spent on bringing improvement in the existing hospitals.
He said that the provincial government has initiated unprecedented reforms for the provision of justice to common man & poor and rights to them as electoral commitments of PTI made with the people during elections 2013. These reforms will not only benefit the people of the province and visible change, rather its positive impacts will reflect in the whole country.
The chief minister warned that instead of schools, hospitals, police stations, patwarkhanas and public sector offices will serve and provide rights to the people without getting bribes and favouritism and will have to facilitate them. The government, employees he said will now instead of influential have to serve the general public.
He said that the provincial government instead of constructing new buildings in health and education sectors has decided that before the construction the structure of the existing schools and hospitals will be rehabilitated and teachers, doctors and other staffers will be provided furniture, electricity, water, machinery, instruments, boundary walls and additional rooms. He said that work on the implementation of these projects in these two sectors has been started.